A lot of understandable buyer’s remorse.
The woman who voted for Trump because she thought he wouldn’t be goofy as president is typical: Trump voters who rationalized their vote for Trump believing “how bad can Trump really be” – now they know how bad Trump truly is.
I agree! What amazes me is how they couldn't see that from the very beginning. I heard sirens and saw flashing red lights when Trump walked down that escalator to announce his run for the presidency. How could they be so gullible and stupid?
It’s complicated…
There are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they knew he was unfit to be president – it was their way to demonstrate their contempt and disdain for the ‘Washington establishment’ and ‘business as usual’ politics; what better way to destroy a hated, broken political system than place an incompetent neophyte in the WH.
There are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they think he’s ‘funny’ and ‘entertaining,’ looking for four years of amusement.
There are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they incorrectly believed Trump was the ‘lesser of two evils.’
There are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they are blind partisan Republican hacks who would vote for any Republican presidential candidate no matter how reprehensible and wrong.
There are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they bought into Trump’s politics of fear, hate, and division; wrongheaded white voters looking for a ‘champion’ to ‘defend white culture’ against immigrants, diversity, and inclusion.
And there are Trump voters who voted for Trump because they approved of his authoritarianism, conservatives looking for a ‘strong man’ to compel conformity and punish dissent – Trump’s response to the George Floyd demonstrators is a perfect example of that.
One can only hope that enough Trump voters learned a hard, bitter lesson – and won’t make the mistake of voting for Trump again.
Thank you for posting your rationale' for not supporting Trump. Please find my push-back on your items:
1. Trump is not "unfit" to be president. He is a US businessman, a successful CEO type instead of the "community organizer" types who never ran as much as a lemonade stand. You are correct in that we wanted someone to shake-up the DC "swamp" and fix the broken political system. Both party "establishments" sold out US workers to China and kept making trade deals that helped Wall Street and hurt main street. Here is a graph that shows that the "swamp" is killing the middle class, but helping the top 1% of incomes.
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2. No one voted for Trump because he is "funny or entertaining".
3. Trump is not "evil", democrats are evil.
4. You may be right that there are GOP voters vote for any Republican over any democrat.
5. Trump's immigration policies are popular among Trump voters, especially "the wall".
- No catch & release
- No diversity lottery
- No asylum claims unless pre-approved
- No chain migration
- Only merit based immigration for who the US needs
- No birthright citizenship, i.e. no cottage industry for anchor babies from Russia & China.
- DACA kids get green cards but NOT citizenship
6. Trump is not "politically correct", that is a positive for Trump voters.
7. There are no 2016 Trump voters that will not vote for Trump in 2020. Look at the 300,000 applicants to a Trump rally during a pandemic as proof that Trump is gaining support no matter what the "polls" say.
8. Look at Trump's promises kept list to see how effective he has been as president. Democrats will be surprised how many new back voters will support Trump and his economic growth.
www.promiseskept.com
9. Look at "senile" Joe Biden and the democrat's policies and the voters have a stark choice:
Not a joke, folks: He’s running on a transformative policy agenda.
www.vox.com
rvat.org
